Forge Meaning
/fɔːd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
nounA workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
Sentence Examples
The smith is working at his forge.
If elected president, my pledge is to forge a grand bargain to stop gender-based violence.
A move to forge new links between management and workers
CEFR Practice Quiz
The criminal tried to ____ a famous painting to sell it as real.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The blacksmith began to ____ a new blade from the glowing piece of red-hot metal.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge."
— 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
"In the greater bodies the forge was easy."
— 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
"If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]"
— 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
"On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne"
— c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 451:
"Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft."
— 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The criminal tried to ____ a famous painting to sell it as real.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The blacksmith began to ____ a new blade from the glowing piece of red-hot metal.